COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho - On a recent Sunday night, Benjamin and Christina Heater lived out their faith on the floor of the Dalton Gardens church.

The couple and their two young children, Jessica and Caleb, slept at the church building as they hosted two homeless families overnight.

“So often, we’re just Sunday morning Christians,” Christina Heater said. “This really is a concrete way to make a difference and to reach the lost.”

Through the areawide Family Promise program, the Dalton Gardens church regularly provides temporary housing and meals to needy families.

It’s just one example of the north Idaho congregation’s purposeful shift from an inward to an outward focus, leaders said. read more